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Possessed

adjective

1.

Influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion. Synonym: obsessed.

2.

Frenzied as if possessed by a demon. Synonyms: amok, amuck, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal. "Berserk with grief" , "A berserk worker smashing windows"

Possess

verb

(past & past part. possessed; pres. part. possessing)

1.

Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.

2.

Have ownership or possession of. Synonyms: have, own. "How many cars does she have?"

3.

Enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas. "A terrible rage possessed her"

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"Possessed" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Captain Morgan was so great that I do believe he would rather have gone to the bottom than have questioned his command, even when it was to scuttle the boat. Nevertheless, when he felt the cold water gushing about his feet (for he had taken off his shoes and stockings) he became possessed with such a fear of being drowned that even the Spanish galleon had no terrors for him if he could only feel the solid planks thereof ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle

... thin ice which broke easily as our iron-shod prow struck them, and sometimes even a thin sheet would resist all our attempts to break it; sometimes we would push big floes with comparative ease and sometimes a small floe would bar our passage with such obstinacy that one would almost believe it possessed of an evil spirit; sometimes we passed through acres of sludgy sodden ice which hissed as it swept along the side, and sometimes the hissing ceased seemingly without rhyme or reason, and we found our screw churning the sea without ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... to you for ever, doctor; and when once I'm possessed of my dear Lauretta, I will endeavour to make work for you as fast ...

— St. Patrick's Day • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... was the question of clothing. It had grown much too cold to do without some sort of artificial covering. Bears and bisons and other animals who live in northern regions are protected against snow and ice by a heavy coat of fur. Man possessed no such coat. His skin was very delicate and he ...

— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon

... nor shawl-strap; such ordinary paraphernalia of travel I remembered once to have possessed, and tried in vain to recall the particular occasions on which they had been wrecked in Wallencamp. I bore with me my bouquet, my basket of boxberries, some small cedar trees for transplanting, and half of the largest clam-shell the shores of Cape Cod had ever produced; this ...

— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene

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